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December 5, 2022 England / Pakistan

Are Stokes and McCullum right? Is a win bigger than a loss?

3 minute readIt was a win that England were racing to catch from the outset. The Test began with Zak Crawley hitting three fours off Naseem Shah’s opening over and it ended with the light meters out. Ben Stokes’ men never really slowed in between. Even if England hadn’t won, you’d have

December 5, 2022 England / Pakistan

Will Jacks: first look in Test cricket

2 minute readWe don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from players’ debuts – but we report on them anyway. England have a long and rich history of travelling to the subcontinent and handing out caps to spin bowling all-rounders who they wouldn’t ordinarily pick for either their batting or their bowling. These

December 1, 2022 England / Pakistan

Why Harry Brook’s six fours in an over was better than six sixes in an over

2 minute readWell it definitely, definitely wasn’t the wild shits. The first day of England’s first Test in Pakistan since 2005 saw them reach 500 quicker than any Test team ever before. Peak dominance of bat over ball came when Harry Brook hit six fours in one Saud Shakeel over. We put

November 30, 2022 England / Pakistan

Half England’s Test squad have been repeatedly consumed by an urgent necessity

2 minute readYou can take your own chef with you (Omar Meziane, if you’re wondering), but if you’re in a part of the world you don’t visit too often, there’s a decent chance you’ll come into contact with viruses that your immune system doesn’t know all that well. What we’re saying here

November 28, 2022 England / Pakistan

All three Pakistan v England Tests are expected to be sell-outs

2 minute readEngland’s last Test tour of Pakistan finished in December 2005. We launched King Cricket in January 2006. We are about to complete our first lap of Test cricket. That 2005 series finished 2-0 to Pakistan. Shoaib Akhtar and the not-especially-Danish Danish Kaneria skittled England on the fifth day of the

November 25, 2022 Regulars

Cricket in a Western

3 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. It is more than okay to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself if you want. Despite making efforts to steer clear of cricket at the minute, we’re rather struggling to switch on

November 22, 2022 Australia / England

When Jos Buttler says an Australia v England series is irrelevant, is that enough?

4 minute readEngland have just finished playing Australia in a one-day series. The first match came three days after the T20 World Cup final and the man who went on to captain England in the second game called that scheduling “horrible”. With the bare minimum diplomacy, England’s coach said the series was

November 21, 2022 Regulars

A cricket bat in a fishing programme

3 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. You are more than free – indeed you are actively encouraged – to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Send more of those ones please. If you’ve never seen Mortimer & Whitehouse:

November 16, 2022 Australia / England

The Test match that Simon Kerrigan and James Faulkner played

< 1 minute readNow that we’re in one of those occasional narrow windows when a World Cup isn’t taking place, it seems a good time to point you all towards the final episode of our podcast series about the 2013 Ashes. The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes comes to a climax with what will, for

November 14, 2022 Australia / England

So is everyone super-psyched about this Australia v England ODI series then?

2 minute readAn Australia v England series starts this week. The old rivalry. Always an edge to it, bragging rights, a chance to make some sort of statement, yadda, yadda, yadda… The 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off features one of the all-time great film quotes. This is of course